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Chuck
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One of these showed up in Cody.  Caused quite a stir.  Had some problems but looks real.  Any documentation showing how many of these were made?  A long time dealer friend of mine says he saw 3 of them in an auction once.  Haven’t looked through Gordon’s book yet. There was a set of the Gordon’s books in Cody but I wasn’t allowed to thumb through it.

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Chuck,

Rob called me from Cody and asked me about them and the one at the show is a new one to show up so that makes 7 that I have in my survey. It did have some issues from the pictures I seen but it looked real. I have 2 of them with one being the one pictured in Gordons book with the matt barrel and the selector lever and one I bought at Tulsa that is extra heavy.

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Chuck,

Rob called me from Cody and asked me about them and the one at the show is a new one to show up so that makes 7 that I have in my survey. It did have some issues from the pictures I seen but it looked real. I have 2 of them with one being the one pictured in Gordons book with the matt barrel and the selector lever and one I bought at Tulsa that is extra heavy.

Bob

  

Thanks for the info Bob.  Guy was probing for the value but in the end he didn’t want to sell it.  My friend and probably others would have bought it on the spot.  Did you see problems other than the sight and side plates?  I never got to hold it.

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Wood was semi checked by an amateur. The threaded holes in both side plates ( for what? ) and the dagger was the hole in the upper tang. The elevator did have a name stamped in it but with a professionally made stamp but it was too long to fit on the elevator so it was stamped diagonally.

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The fellow who had it brought it to me real early in the show, and I told him that it was a relatively rare Model 1873, but that all those extra holes in it really hurt the value. I also mentioned to him that he should contact you (Bob) for further & more accurate information.

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